Forbidden Sunrise

The Tenderness 2.0

A/N "James saw Royalty in Beck for a brief moment and fainted, what will happen in this initiation into a crew of mixed bloods for Beck and Tori."

Chapter 32: Part of a Family

Steps, 9:00pm

Walking back into the factory Beck was approached by both Isaac and Ellie who wanted to give their sincerest apology for allowing all the members of other crews to leave before he could give some information about him, Beck stopped in front of Isaac and Ellie and asked for their hands. Isaac and Ellie gave him their hands which he then held with both of his. He gripped them and gave both Ellie and Isaac light taps on their cheeks. For a moment both of his eyes seemed blue and his voice sounded more…deeper, but with authority.

"It's ok you two…after all you're only low level Mixed Bloods." that sounded more condescending than apologetic to both of them, still after what happened it was better to let is slide for now.

The crowd of Mixed bloods had apparently heard enough from Tori and were now focusing their attention to Beck. Beck asked what everyone was looking at, Tori came up to him and told him that Ellie and Isaac asked everyone to show the same attention they showed her to him. Beck raised an eyebrow and placed both his hands behind his back, he thought about what to say and found just the words. "since I know I'm surrounded by killers, murderers and possible psychopaths…I'll choose my words carefully. Since no one cared enough to listen to my story let alone give me a chance…I have nothing to share with any of you."

And like that, Beck wrapped his arm around Tori's waist and said nothing else. There was mumbling and whispers coming from the large group, an obvious response to what was just said to them. James sensed tension in the air and decided to get the initiation ritual started. Since the first steps in getting initiated was getting to know everyone, Beck skipped that step with everyone and instead only focused on Cynthia, Ellie and Isaac. Tori felt bad but didn't want everyone else to feel like their time here was spent- so she got to know as many people as she could remember.

"What's up James, when you came back you acted a bit different…" Trina told her boyfriend.

"I don't know what it is Trina…but that guy is special. It's the best word I can use to describe him…I know all we have is stories that are told to us by the four family leaders in New York City on our origins and the royal family. But there was never any description on what the Royal twins looked like, I think I might have taken a glance at Excel's Descendant."

"Are you serious? You know even if you are telling the truth…finding and identifying the next Mixed Blood King is there job- not ours. Even suggesting that you might have taken a glance at one of the royal twins could get you in trouble, excuse me James I have to-"

James grabbed her hand and kept her from leaving, he felt disrespected and was gonna put Trina in her place. "Trina! Don't ever tell me something I already know, I was only telling you what I saw. If it was nothing, I wouldn't bother telling you, but because I thought it was important enough I though I share it with the strongest female mixed blood member here…who also happens to be my girlfriend." James let her hand go and gave her ass a smack. Trina said nothing and went on her way.

Shoe Assembly Lines

[Cynthia]

Sitting on old assembly lines that were used to move along shoes, Beck listened on to Cynthia speaking about her past and about herself, Ellie and Isaac sat and listened on with him.

"I was born to Mexican parents in 1910 just as the Mexican revolution (Revolucion Mexicana) was starting. My dad, mi papa was a vampire (vampiro) and my mother, mi mama was a fairy (Hada) who sided with the revolutionaries at the time. We were known as Zapatistas, named respectfully after the man who fought for land rights for the indigenous poor of Mexico; Emiliano Zapata. Both my mother and father fought against government forces, I watched from far away as the battle spread to all parts. When alone with the enemies, my father would put down his gun and tear them apart with his claws and fangs. My mother's approach was less violent but more disturbing, as a being of magic she could turn the enemies into roaches or flies and then kill them.

It looked like things were going well until my parents were captured along with other rebel groups, they were killed by what is known as Fusilamineto or Firing Squad in 1917. I was left alone and survived living with random families. As a fairy- vampire I aged very slowly and didn't need to drink blood to live like my father. And because I inherited abilities from my mother I could use magic to defend myself, like making an energy sphere. I also have fangs but I can't produce claws. I've been alive for 112 years now and am enjoying life as it is."

Cynthia passed the spot to Ellie and Isaac who looked unsure which one of them should speak, Isaac insisted that Ellie go first since their paths wouldn't cross for a while.

[Ellie]

"Guess its my turn to share…my life as a mixed blood started when I was born in Hollywood in 1970. As I said my mother was a light elf, a race of beings that have been around for a good millions of years. She came from Germany and traveled to Puerto Rico where she met my father, a young hard working farmer boy. She went to puerto rico because the island had been a home for elemental refugees for a long time, she told me that elves were at war against each other at that time. Said it was a battle between day and night elves, also known as light and dark elves."

"anyway my mother fell in love with my father when he was just fifteen…in elven years she was 200 years old, yet she looked 17. She watched him till the land and feed the chickens and animals he and his father had. She admired that he was in tuned with the natural setting, how he enjoyed planting new trees and protected the flowers and insects which benefited them. When my mother's people fall in love with humans or other elves, looks don't matter but what does is there spirit, just how bright is it. She always said a glowing spirit insured an easy and fruitful life for the kids."

"she got with my father one night when his father was gone and I guess…made him do things, it was on that night that …I guess me and my sister were made. She persuaded my father to come with her to the united states when he was older, he studied English in school and even got a job to get money for a smuggler to get him into the shores of California. My mother could have simply teleported both of them to the U.S but he was scared of magic. Well when they got to the U.S my father spent no time and found a job as a carpenter, construction worker and hired help in farms, it was here again where they messed around again and I was born."

"I was born five months after they came to the country, elven pregnancies are quick since Magic helps in speeding up the development of the fetus. Because me and my sister are half human we age slowly just as Cynthia here, Both of us got the color of our hair and eyes from my dad but the magical abilities from my mom. Years went by and my father was beginning to get old, when he was 40 I still looked like a 15 year old and Trina looked about right, 17. He passed away in 2005 at the age of 45, it was from a stroke- my mother was so heartbroken she committed magical suicide. She said she wanted to be with our dad so bad that she would seek peace in me. You see… when my mom killed herself…her soul and my dad's went into my eyes and opened up my special ocular ability."

Beck was so into Ellie's story that he didn't notice Cynthia getting up on the assembly line to sit next to him.

"In 2010 when I was attending high school with Trina…I caught my eye on someone very handsome and caring, Isaac. He looked so scared of me I wonder if I was doing something that was scaring him…I'll leave this part to Isaac to continue on."

[Isaac]

"That was a nice way of ending your story hun, but how my life began is just as amazing and cool as Ellie's."

"The year was 1950...my mother a normal human who was visiting the land of Jerusalem with her then normal human boyfriend, my mother was of Indian descent and she wanted to see the sights that were holy in that land. India was a land of many things holy and sacred, but with only three major holy sights in it- she wanted to view them all. When she visited the church of the holy sepulchre she was amazed at how ornate and well built the church was. Since she wasn't Muslim she couldn't really enter the dome of the rock, but that didn't stop her from enjoying the view of it. Lastly was the wailing wall or western wall that surrounded the old city of Jerusalem….many centuries ago."

"It was here that as a guest my mother was able to go up to the wall and take a look at it, she found it strange that their seem to be talking emanating from the wall. She pressed her ear on it and heard what sounded like a man whispering sweet things to her. She fell in love with the voice and what it was saying, my mother told me her old boyfriend never spoke to her like that and if falling in love with a wall meant leaving him…then so be it."

"not long after dumping his sorry ass did my mother visit the other side of the wall at night, she wanted to see if she could hear the voice again- but there was nothing on that night. Something better approached her, a man who was well built, dark and had the darkest hair and eyes she's ever seen on a man. He took her with him to an unknown location and I guess…made love to her. My mother tried getting his names but he told her she wouldn't understand, when in fact she did understand. She knew someone like him wasn't normal, she knew by his stamina and inability to go soft in that area."

Weeks went by when on the night my mother was leaving Jerusalem, my father approached her at her hotel door. He told her that he was in fact not human, that he was called by what many Jews call…Go-Lam. Golem in English, that in Hebrew it mean "stupid" "dumb" and all sorts of hurtful things. He wanted to go with her back home, he said that his seed had already been planted. She already knew this and thought about it, "So long as you can keep looking human…then ok." she told him. They went back to India where I was born, of course a lot of stuff was happening in India during that time and my mother and father made an escape to the United States. A funny thing about my birth is that in India, the doctors told my mother that I was perhaps the heaviest baby they had. They though I was some miracle baby by the pantheon of India's gods and goddesses."

"How much did you weigh then Isaac?" asked Cynthia who now had her arm wrapped around Beck's arm. Isaac took notice of that and looked around to see if Tori had been watching, for the most part she didn't catch any of it.

"I weighed 25 pounds."

"WHAT!?" shouted Ellie, Cynthia and Beck. Isaac chuckled and smiled, "see the reason for that is like Ellie…I look human, but have Golem traits. Heavy, a bit stubborn and stern.

And not to mention I have the ability to use Earth type techniques in battle or for defense. Well not long in 2000 when my mom was at least seventy years old and I was or looked like I was 17...she passed away. My father who was immortal told me that he loved her so much, he said that when I fall in love with a girl on my way growing up…that my love should be like the stones of the pyramid of Giza, like the ancient stones of Angkor wat and like the stones of the Wailing Wall. Because rock itself can very well be considered…difficult to weather naturally, my love like the stones should be able to stand the test of time. He took my mother with him to India to bury her…he became the soil surrounding her body, and he's been there till this day."

"12 years passed, I managed to work for myself and rent out a place, I was going to high school when I happened to meet Ellie. She said I looked scared, when in fact I was nervous. Oh man I was so nervous about asking her out one time that I ran into the boys bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror for a good entire class period…strangest thing is, my nervousness gave way to opening my own ocular abilities. The mirror turned into a slab of stone when I left the bathroom to ask her out…when she said yes…I felt what my father told me about my mother; Love."

Ellie took the spot and finished up their story for them.

"After he asked me out, I figured out that Trina had been seeing this boy named James who also happened to be a mixed blood like us, said he ran a large family up in Montana and that after graduating we could live there. So far Me and Isaac have been given our own crew to run here in White fish, the only member in it so far is Cynthia, paired up with me and Isaac makes three members."

Beck was amazed by all the stories, he wondered what the next step to the initiation was, James went up to him and told him…."Alright Beck…now comes the time for you and Tori to choose what I call…Battle Buddies."

Story Details

Reflections- Just like Beck and Tori are reflections of Oskar and Eli, Isaac and Ellie are reflections of my original characters, Elphina and Isaiah. Both Elphina and Isaiah were both Elementals, but I just never gave them an extensive history like for Isaac and Ellie.

Battle Buddies- to put it short, are warriors who one chooses to help them in battle and in times of War after hearing their stories. Kind of like choosing which person will benefit you the most in something important.

(!) "Next Update on Friday"